CHICAGO (WLS) - Chicago's new top cop says the accessibility to firearms in America is an extension "of government-sponsored racism" that goes back to the days of slavery and Jim Crow.

Speaking to parishoners at St. Sabina Church earlier this month, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy took to the microphone after Father Michael Pfleger spoke about gun control.

McCarthy said the topic of race is a sensitive issue "because everybody's afraid of race" but that he wasn't afraid to broach to subject.

So heres what I want to tell you. See, lets see if we can make a connection here. Slavery. Segregation. Black codes. Jim Crow. What, what did they all have in common? Anybody getting scared? Government sponsored racism."

"Now I want you to connect one more dot on that chain of the African American history in this country, and tell me if Im crazy. Federal gun laws that facilitate the flow of illegal firearms, into our urban centers across this country, that are killing our black and brown children," he said.

"The NRA does not like me, and Im okay with that. Weve got to get the gun debate back to center, and its got to come with the recognition of whos paying the price for the gun manufacturers being rich and living in gated communities," McCarthy said.

McCarthy illustrated his point by recalling a crime scene investigation while he was a police official in Newark, New Jersey where five children were shot, two of whom were killed. McCarthy said when he got home, he turned on his television to unwind and find an episode of "Sarah Palin's Alaska" showing.

"She was caribou hunting and talking about the right to bear arms. Why wasn't she at the crime scene with me?"

"Now I want you to connect one more dot on that chain of the African American history in this country, and tell me if Im crazy. Federal gun laws that facilitate the flow of illegal firearms, into our urban centers across this country, that are killing our black and brown children," he said.

OK. You may or may not be crazy, but you are an ignoramus. Gun control laws were originally passed under Jim Crow to prevent blacks from having guns to defend themselves, a policy you endorse today.

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posted on 06/24/2011 2:34:05 PM PDT
by Hugin
("A man'll usually tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear it"--- Open Range)

Slavery. Segregation. Black codes. Jim Crow. What, what did they all have in common?

They were all invented by Democrats. Democrats who also, by the way, passed laws making it impossible for Blacks to buy arms with which to defend themselves from the Ku Klux Klan - another bunch of Democrats.

The original Black Panthers of Alabama were a group of Black men who asserted their Second Amendment right to arm themselves in self-defense against rogue Democratic "lawmen" like McCarthy. A wolf in sheep's clothing, folks.

Jim Crow laws prevented black from owning guns and protecting themselves from the KKK. That was how the NRA started.

Right on the first part, wrong on the second. The NRA was founded by veterans of the Civil War who were shocked at the number of recruits who couln't shoot. The goal was to promote shooting and marksmanship, it had nothing to do with gun control.

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posted on 06/24/2011 2:39:32 PM PDT
by Hugin
("A man'll usually tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear it"--- Open Range)

>>>”She was caribou hunting and talking about the right to bear arms. Why wasn’t she at the crime scene with me?”<<<

This has got to be one of the top 10 stupid quotes I’ve ever read, and I’m 55 years old. Here’s a good response:

“I was out on the tundra quartering this caribou and talking about that tasty backstrap, waiting to fry it up in camp. Why wasn’t he out here helping me haul this out instead of hanging around back east with a bunch of hoodlums?”

So heres what I want to tell you. See, lets see if we can make a connection here. Slavery. Segregation. Black codes. Jim Crow. What, what did they all have in common? Anybody getting scared? Government Democrat sponsored racism."

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posted on 06/24/2011 2:44:30 PM PDT
by jessduntno
(Liberalism is socialism in a party dress. And just as masculine.)

It appears as if this moron was throwing red meat at a black audience and using Sarah Palin’s name as an applause line. He is wrong on everything he said but his audience doesn’t know and doesn’t care, any more than the Superintendent does. It’s all race and hate and this ‘top cop’ eagerly joined in the hate-fest in Chicago. No wonder Obama looked like he was brilliant if this is what passes for an authority figure in Chicago government.

"Now I want you to connect one more dot on that chain of the African American history in this country, and tell me if Im crazy. Federal gun laws that facilitate the flow of illegal firearms, into our urban centers across this country, that are killing our black and brown children," he said."

Laws kill?

I thought it was guns.

Hell chief ... even YOU should be able to figger this one out .... stop making laws against the Constitution.

(PS ... your own blacks and browns are killin' those black and brown chi'rin)

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posted on 06/24/2011 2:56:10 PM PDT
by knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)

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